Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 2 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 3 | One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing ever happens there . ’ |
| 5 | Please have an article on this situation , not in London , not in Manchester , but a small town where people believe , rightly or wrongly , that nothing ever happens . |
| 6 | Er n nothing ever happens up there that 's why people are so disillusioned with politics altogether . |
| 7 | The intersection is on your route home , and you do it every day , and nothing ever happens . |
| 8 | Nothing ever happens on Just Like Home — that 's the name of the planet I live on . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the kind of place that no one ever hears of , where nothing ever happens . |
| 10 | It 's too quiet in the countryside , nothing ever happens . |
| 11 | Whatever that one was , and , and coming rushing out of the place waiving your hand , and nothing ever happens , the guy never sends is . |
| 12 | Just Like A Man , As Soon As The Tide Comes and Surface Of The Moon all received favourable receptions from the polite audience but it was left to Spit In The Rain , Stone Cold Sober and the band 's ode to suburbia Nothing Ever Happens , to set Middlesbrough Town Hall alight . |
| 13 | Great chart success has eluded the band , but they made a dent on the charts two years ago with Nothing Ever Happens . |
| 14 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 15 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 16 | Nothing ever happened to him . |
| 17 | Nothing ever happened in Broadstairs . |
| 18 | ‘ But nothing ever happened , ’ said Stevie . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing ever happened in terms of stab wounds . ’ |
| 20 | Nothing more happened ; and no hypothesis made sense . |
| 21 | He watched the door for a bit , but nothing more happened . |
| 22 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 23 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 24 | Something just happens … it 's not very often … once in every three weeks about … |
| 25 | Something just happens . |
| 26 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Something just happened . |
| 28 | Erm , oh er , in P E , erm , we 're setting up tents , and I was the bats and I 'm amazed , something just happened . |
| 29 | He would use her as one used a paper towel , as an object of little worth that one just happened to find useful . |
| 30 | Well they 'd see there were problems , you see , faith does n't mean that everything just happens , because faith has got ta do something , faith without works is dead . |